![]() Tornado climatologies are important for understanding the formation and characteristics of severe convective storms, and also for better quantifying the risks that tornadoes pose. Tornadoes were more frequently reported over eastern Romania compared with other regions of the country, with a maximum over southeastern Romania. Most of the tornadoes (28 reports) occurred during the afternoon hours 1500–1659 local time. ![]() Of the 129 tornadoes from the Romanian tornado database, 98 were reported between May and July with a peak in May (36 reports). The recent period (1990–2013) contains 89 tornado reports that came from mass-media sources and eyewitness reports. The socialist period (1945–89) contains only seven tornado reports, likely because during this period it was believed that tornadoes did not occur in Romania. Evidence of tornado observations in Romania before the nineteenth century is found in the representation of tornadoes in the Romania folk mythology. ![]() The historical period (1822–1944) contains 33 tornado reports originating from historical newspaper archives and publications of the Romanian Meteorological Institute. The first tornado climatology for Romania is presented based on datasets attained from three periods between 18. ![]()
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